Posted on 01/15/2018 9:48:04 PM PST by blam
Federal judge Gloria Navarro slammed the FBI and Justice Department on Monday, Jan. 8, for “outrageous” abuses and “flagrant misconduct” in the prosecution of Cliven Bundy and sons, the Nevada ranchers who spurred a high-profile standoff with the FBI and Bureau of Land Management in 2014. Navarro condemned the "grossly shocking” withholding of evidence from defense counsel in a case that could have landed the Bundys in prison for the rest of their lives. Navarro, who had declared a mistrial last month, dismissed all charges against the Bundys.
Navarro was especially riled because the FBI spent three years covering up or lying about the role of their snipers in the 2014 standoff. The Bundys faced conspiracy charges because they summoned militia to defend them after claiming FBI snipers had surrounded their ranch. Justice Department lawyers scoffed at this claim but newly-released documents vindicate the Bundys. In an interview Saturday, Ammon Bundy reviled the feds: “They basically came to kill our family, they surrounded us with snipers. And then they wanted to lie about it all like none of it happened."
Many of the heavily-armed activists who flocked to the scene feared that the FBI snipers had a license to kill the Bundys. Their reaction cannot be understood without considering a landmark 1990s case that continues to shape millions of Americans’ attitude towards Washington: the federal killings and coverups at Ruby Ridge.
Randy Weaver and his family lived in an isolated cabin in the mountains of northern Idaho. Weaver was a white separatist who believed races should live apart; he had no record of violence against other races — or anyone else. An undercover federal agent entrapped him into selling a sawed-off shotgun. The feds then sought to pressure Weaver to become an informant but he refused.
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Nothing is forgotten...Payback is a bitch...
This is a great article. Thanks for posting it.
AND WACO!
Living just one state over from Idaho, I kept a close watch on the daily news from Ruby Ridge. When it was over and all the government’s lies, murders, and withheld information became public knowledge, I wanted to throw up. Ambushing and killing women, killing children, was this the country I joined the Army to protect?
From that day forward I swore never to trust or respect the FBI, the Marshals Service, or the BATFE. Nothing has happened since to make me change my mind!
I forgot to put Bureau of Land Mgmt. on my list. And you are right, payback, when it comes, WILL be a bitch.
The Feds got away with murder at Ruby Ridge, why wouldn’t the rewarded behavior continue?
WACO, Ruby Ridge, and now Bundy Ranch. There are others, but these three stand out.
Don’t forget the complementary killing of the kid’s dog too.
Certainly not the lawyers at the FBI.
Statute of limitations on murder never expires. Lon Horriuchi needs a neck stretching.
We’ve not forgotten, and never will.
You know who the sheriff is in San Diego, CA?
The tragedy of Ruby Ridge: under Bill Gore’s direct orders, a 14 year old boy’ mother, Vicky Weaver was killed in cold blood. “She was holding her infant. Bill Gore’s role in these “liquidations” of unarmed Americans — a mother and young son — is undisputed. Because of his orders to kill these innocent and unarmed Americans, our government paid out 3 million-dollar settlement.,”said www.saveoursheriff.com.
I wouldn’t say he was particularly punished for his role at Ruby Ridge.
I would tend to blame those who wrote a d approved the ROE, not the guy on the trigger.
They got away with it because the victims were white.
Every time I think about Ruby Ridge I feel like throwing up.
That is for a State Court to decide. They were going after him for murder, but the feds shut it down. Bigly.
"The Feds got away with murder at Ruby Ridge, why wouldn’t the rewarded behavior continue?"
Catastrophic dam breaches are usually preceded, often over lengthy periods, by small trickles from small fractures...
Maybe this Nation is at the "Boston Tea Party" stage...
“I would tend to blame those who wrote and approved the ROE, not the guy on the trigger.”
The Nuremberg Trials established that, “Ve vus chust following orders” is not a defense.
That said, the Nuremberg Trials were in many aspects farcical.
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